Migrant field hands typically made *two to two
and a half dollars a day, about forty bucks in 2013 dollars. Said
another way, a family of four able hands made around eight hundred
dollars, equivalent, for five day's work.

*Daddy paid $5 for an average field hand per day and $6 for the best around 1961. I received $6, so I was kidded that I was only worth $5, but since I was Dr. T's son, I got $6!:) $5 then is worth $39and $6 = $47 today.

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The notion that the government is entitled to a certain portion of your
wages before you even receive your paycheck is a direct contradiction
of the most basic tenet of liberty: private property. It is no
exaggeration to say that once Congress was granted the power to levy an
unlimited tax upon incomes, its members assumed the power to render
every American under absolute tyranny, says Todd Keister in this
article, The IRS: Destroying Liberty Since before You Were Born, at American Thinker.

Bystander in Chief Obama -
His brief legislative career was about voting "present" because he
prefers to be absent when accountability knocks... He reemerges only
after the shooting stops and the smoke clears: gnosis personified, here
to diagnose our failings. He is not a commander-in-chief for the battle
but the armchair general of the post mortem.Andrew McCarthy at nationalreview.com

Suddenly, the same mainstream press that for a half-decade had served as
Barack Obama’s hagiographers, water carriers, bootlickers, lawn
jockeys, shoeshine boys, livery drivers, toadies, stooges, and secret
election committee…the same ones who’d dismissed all criticism of their
big-eared saint as smelly hillbilly racism…the same ones who’d
previously scoffed at the New Black Panthers case, Fast and Furious, and
Benghazi as Republican-manufactured piffle…suddenly, it seemed as if
Obama had flashed his fangs and bit them on the buttocks, leading them
to act like teenage girls whose lover had cheated on them.Takimag at takimag.com

In the end, the Soviet economy was so utterly
fraudulent that the final breakdown of the system came as a complete
surprise to many in political and economic fields of the era. This is
what happens when governments control all source data for financial
statistics; transparency dies and collapse creeps in. Brandon Smith at alt-market.com

If you know someone that actually believes that the U.S. economy is
in good shape, just show them the statistics in this article. When you
step back and look at the long-term trends, it is undeniable what is
happening to us. We are in the midst of a horrifying economic decline
that is the result of decades of very bad decisions. 30 years ago, the
U.S. national debt was about one trillion dollars.

Today, it is almost
17 trillion dollars. 40 years ago, the total amount of debt in the
United States was about 2 trillion dollars. Today, it is more than 56
trillion dollars. At the same time that we have been running up all of
this debt, our economic infrastructure and our ability to produce wealth
has been absolutely gutted. Since 2001, the United States has lost
more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities and millions of good jobs have
been shipped overseas. Our share of global GDP declined from 31.8
percent in 2001 to 21.6 percent in 2011. The percentage of Americans
that are self-employed is at a record low, and the percentage of
Americans that are dependent on the government is at a record high. The
U.S. economy is a complete and total mess, and it is time that we faced
the truth.

The following are 40 statistics about the fall of the U.S. economy that are almost too crazy to believe...

“The Official Website of the North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission”

“they whipped mrs. r”

Chester, South Carolina, [February]. 27, 1865

“My
Darling Sister, I am so rejoiced to be able to once more write you
though it is more than probable this letter may never reach its
destination. Every day we were in hourly expectation of a visit from
Sherman’s troops. When Columbia was evacuated they sent all the
Government stores to this place….The Treasury Department went through to
Charlotte. I saw a good many of the girls….only stayed a few hours and
were very anxious for me to go to North Carolina…..

I
must tell you some of the outrages the Yankees have committed around
here. An old man by the name of Brice lived in Fairfield District….The
Yankees hung him because he would not tell where he had hid his money
and silver. They robbed every house they passed, burnt a great many.
They have burnt Tom Boulware’s and some houses near there, burnt Mary S.
DeG’s gin house, cribs, etc., and took two watches and some other
things from here.

They
stripped old Mrs. R., Kate’s mother, and whipped her, destroyed
everything Mrs. N. Beckham had to eat and the Boulware’s and Watson’s, I
hear, are living off the corn left by our cavalry men in the woods.
It has been some time since I have had as comfortable a night’s rest as I
had last night….

Wheeler’s
men killed sixteen Yanks I hear in retaliation for whipping Mrs. R. Oh
Ann, I do think the idea of a Lady’s being stripped and whipped by
those villains is outrageous, the most awful thing I have heard of. Oh
Annie, is it not awful to see the way our people are suffering and the
sin that is committed…..I just know people cannot die from fear…..”

St. George Tucker, Who Wrote the First Commentary on the Constitution in 1803, Gave this Explanation of Nullification:

“The
Federal Government is the creature of the States. It is not a party to
the Constitution, but the result of it – the creation of that agreement
which was made by the States as parties. It is a mere agent, entrusted
with limited powers for certain objects; which powers and objects are
enumerated in the Constitution. Shall the agent be permitted to judge
of the extent of his own powers, without reference to his constituent?”

Nullification
was viewed by those who wrote our Constitution as the final resort and
rightful remedy of the States and their citizens to prevent the federal
government from exceeding the limits of its constitutionally-mandated
power and, thereby, stealing our rights and our freedoms.”

Pam and I just finished the annual Memorial day place new flags on CSA
vets here in the county. We have always been aware that Confederate Memorial Day
isn't "Memorial Day" proper, but, since the late great Mayor here Eddie Ryan
proclaimed May to always be Confederate Memorial Month back in 2002,
Pam and I just always place them on Memorial weekend. More folks get to
see them and you get the chance to educate some people now and then.

We were please to see that flags we placed just before winter(we try and
keep the graves flagged all year round as you know) were still on the graves. A
few years back that would not been the case.

We did find one stone toppled over but with the aid of a Swiss army knife,
a short board, and the scissor jack from the van, Pam and I
managed to right it and reset it in just over an hour. Not an easy task by any
stretch of the imagination and had we known it had been tipped over we
would have taken proper tools. But, we agreed Confederate Injunutiy
(spelled wrong purposely) was equal or better than damnyankee ingenuity, and we
stuck with it and got it set right.

I am ashamed to say that some person or persons unknown had toppled
at least 25 other headstones as well. Some people have no respect for the living
or the dead.

We did miss one CSA vets grave simply because of back waters still being
out and we couldn’t get to it. We will get one on his grave when water
allows.

So here is the list of venerable vets here in this county Kindness of Gale
Red past division Cmdr SCV IL Div.

PORTER,
Zenas Gilliam, Pvt., Co. K, 48th NC Infantry, CSA, b. 1842 (NC), d. 1885, East
Side Old Part (Enlisted on 8 Aug 1862 at Davidson Co., NC where he was a
farmer. He was captured near Petersburg, VA on 27 Oct 1864, and was released
at Point Lookout, VA on May 15 1865.)

As least he will do less damage here while he is gone. Here we go again, putting our noses in other people's business.

Republican Sen. John McCain has quietly slipped into Syria for a meeting with Syrian rebels.

Spokeswoman Rachel Dean confirms the Arizona Republican made the visit after it was reported by The Daily Beast. She declined further comment about the trip.

The visit took place amid meetings in Paris involving efforts to
secure participation of Syria's fractured opposition in an international
peace conference in Geneva.

Two years of violence in Syria has killed more than 70,000 people.
President Barack Obama has demanded that Syrian President Bashar Assad
leave power, while Russia has stood by Syria, its closest ally in the
Arab world.

McCain has been a leading proponent of arming the rebels and other
aggressive military steps against the Assad regime. He has criticized
Obama administration policy there while stopping short of backing U.S.
ground troops in Syria.

McCain met with leaders of Free Syrian Army units, who called on the
United States to step up its support for the opposition. The rebels
asked for “heavy weapons, a no-fly zone, and airstrikes on the Syrian
regime and the forces of Hezbollah,” The Daily Beast reported.

1,000 EDL chant, sing and march from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street

Thugs sprayed the word ‘Islam’ across two war memorials in a provocative vandalism attack yesterday.

Memorials
to members of RAF Bomber Command and animals killed at war were
targeted in London, as police forces across the country dealt with a
spate of ugly attacks fuelled by hatred after soldier Lee Rigby’s
murder.

One charity claimed
that more than 200 attacks on Muslims had been reported to police since
the brutal killing, while Help for Heroes said it would not accept any
money raised for it by the English Defence League, saying it did not
want to be used for ‘political purposes’.

A body found in a North Carolina motel has been linked to a shooting
spree across two Texas counties that ended with a woman dead, five
people injured and the gunman killed in a firefight, authorities said
Monday.

Texas police identified the suspect as a 23-year-old North
Carolina resident, but did not release his name. A spokesman for Camp
Lejeune in North Carolina said a 23-year-old Marine was connected in
both incidents but did not provide further details, NBC station WITN reported.

The
military spokesman said the discovery of a dead woman in the Sunset Inn
in Jacksonville on Sunday was tied to the incident 1,500 miles away in
Concho County, Texas, earlier that day.

'I don't want them watching us everywhere we are'

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told radio host Aaron Klein that the Obama
administration may have made promises about drones over U.S. soil, but
“there still exists a question” on exactly how the White House does plan
to use the unmanned, armed vehicles.

“There is a difference between being in combat and not being in
combat,” Paul told Klein. “For example, if you’re an American and you’re
in Afghanistan and you’re fighting with the Taliban and you’re shooting
at us, there’s not going to be any due process in that situation. … You
fire back.

“The question is: What happens when you’re not involved in combat,
but you’re thought to be conspiring to attack the United States?”

“I personally would prefer a type of scenario where we try people for
treason,” Paul suggested.

“There are Americans who have gone to the
other side, but so we know that there is a process in place to determine
their innocence or guilt, I would try them for treason. If they don’t
come home, I would try them in abstentia. But I would have some kind of
process other than flash cards and PowerPoint to determine who’s
innocent and who’s guilty.”

Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas said President Barack Obama's
speech on counterterrorism last week was "disturbing" in that it ignored
threats to the homeland while continuing a narrative that al-Qaida has
been greatly diminished.

McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Obama's
rhetoric "defies the reality in terms of the threat level that we've all
been briefed on."

The president has decided on a narrative that al Qaida is on the run and
defeated and that the United States can declare victory and return to a
pre-9/11 mentality, McCaul said on CNN's "State of the Union" on
Sunday.

McCaul said that while the core of al Qaida has been "denigrated tremendously," Obama diminishes the threat to the homeland.

"Al Qaida has evolved into a franchise global movement, if you will,
that inspires and also is very tactical," McCaul said. Evidence of their
work has been seen in Egypt, Libya and Syria, and Jordan and Saudi
Arabia could be next, he said.

On this
Memorial Day it is appropriate to memorialize a number of long-dead
American institutions (RIP). The first would be the main principles
of the Declaration of Independence, beginning with the notion that
governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
The Lincoln administration destroyed that principle long ago when
it responded to the withdrawal of consent by eleven Southern states
by waging total war on their civilian populations for four long
years, killing as many as 400,000 Southerners according to the latest
research, while bombing, burning, and looting Southern cities and
towns.

The Declaration
of Independence also declared in its closing paragraphs that the
states were "free and independent" of any other government.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! At the time, "free and independent
states" meant that Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, etc.
were considered to be free and independent states in the same sense
that Great Britain, France and Spain were free and independent states.

Treason in
the U.S. Constitution is defined as "only" levying war
upon the states, or giving aid and comfort to THEIR enemies. This
of course is exactly what the Lincoln regime did, while redefining
treason to mean exactly the opposite of what it means in the Constitution:
opposition to the federal government.

The blossoming IRS scandal may be welcomed by Americans who hope to
avoid the unblinking eye of the national tax agency, as the last time
the IRS was in such a public mess, tax audits fell by 50 percent,
according to MarketWatch.

After 1998, when Congressional hearings led to criticism and a
reorganization of the IRS, audits subsequently fell to 620,000 in 2000,
and the share of taxpayers audited dropped to 0.5 percent from 1
percent.

During that time of reform, IRS employees were wary of being reprimanded for taking enforcement actions, MarketWatch reported.

“It seems like there’s been more severe weather, it seems, it just
feels like hurricanes are getting worse. Hurricane Sandy ravaged the
East Coast. This tornado now has killed 24 people in the town of Moore.
Do you think that more severe storms are becoming the norm, and do you
think that they are directly related to climate change?”

Tanamachi answered that this was not the case whatsoever and that
people who thought otherwise were likely being influenced by the media’s
continual reporting on weather events:

Well the statistics don’t bear that assertion out. What we’re finding
is that people’s perception is that severe weather has increased. That
perception is largely based on media presentation and that an event like
the Moore tornado is now broadcast worldwide within moments of its
occurence. And so it can seem more local to people than it is.

But as far as the number of tornadoes, we haven’t been able to discern
an increasing trend. As far as the number of hurricanes, we haven’t
been able to discern a really solid increasing trend with that. So it’s
just a matter of people being aware of those events when they occur and
being aware of them almost immediately after they happen.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.